• A stored-program computer is a computer that stores program instructions in electronically, electromagnetically, or optically accessible memory. This...
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    to set up and debug a program on ENIAC. With the proposal of the stored-program computer, this changed. A stored-program computer includes, by design,...
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  • were programmed by control panels in a similar way, as were the first electronic computers. However, with the concept of the stored-program computer introduced...
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    A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute. It is one component of software, which also...
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    stored program concept, a breakthrough which today is a hallmark of digital computers. Other innovations included the use of magnetic tape to store large...
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    the first stored-program computer; the Manchester Baby, which was a small-scale experimental stored-program computer, ran its first program on 21 June...
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    machines. Stored-program computers, by contrast, were designed to store a set of instructions (a program), in memory – typically the same memory as stored data...
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    this changed. A stored-program computer includes by design an instruction set and can store in memory a set of instructions (a program) that details the...
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  • computer to run a stored program. It ran a factoring program for 52 minutes on June 21, 1948, after running a simple division program and a program to...
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    Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer. It was built at the University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams...
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    Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was a British early electronic serial stored-program computer design by Alan Turing. Turing completed the ambitious design in...
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    generation of computers to be designed with greatly reduced power consumption. The first commercially available stored-program computer, the Ferranti...
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    The Manchester computers were an innovative series of stored-program electronic computers developed during the 30-year period between 1947 and 1977 by...
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  • characteristic is that the switching system is controlled by a computer program stored in a memory in the switching system. SPC was the enabling technology...
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  • Manchester Mark 1 (category Computer-related introductions in 1949)
    The Manchester Mark 1 was one of the earliest stored-program computers, developed at the Victoria University of Manchester, England from the Manchester...
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    Research Automatic Computer), originally known as CSIR Mk 1, was Australia's first digital computer, and the fifth stored-program computer in the world. It...
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    ENIAC, it was binary rather than decimal, and was designed to be a stored-program computer. ENIAC inventors, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, proposed...
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    ran its first program and earned the distinction of first electronic stored-program computer. Though the idea of a stored-program computer with combined...
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  • and imagining of what computers could do. ~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates. Biography portal Lists portal Computer Pioneer Award IEEE John...
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    Bull Gamma 3 (category Computer-related introductions in 1952)
    and evolved into a first-generation stored program computer (Gamma AET, 1955, then ET, 1957). In its stored-program configurations, the Gamma 3 mostly...
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    Booting (redirect from Bootstrap program)
    take weeks to program, and program loading was one of many problems that had to be solved. An early computer, ENIAC, had no program stored in memory but...
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    proving that no computer would be able to solve the decision problem. The universal Turing machine was a type of stored-program computer capable of mimicking...
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    Software is a set of programmed instructions stored in the memory of stored-program digital computers for execution by the processor. Software is a recent...
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  • COmputer STored Ambulatory Record (COSTAR) is an electronic medical record using the MUMPS programming language. It was developed by the Laboratory of...
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    EDSAC (category Computer-related introductions in 1949)
    service to the university. EDSAC was the second electronic digital stored-program computer, after the Manchester Mark 1, to go into regular service. Later...
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    world's first programmable, electronic, digital computer, although it was programmed by switches and plugs and not by a stored program. Colossus was designed...
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  • Neumann wrote the first array-sorting program (merge sort) in 1945, during the building of the first stored-program computer. Array indexing was originally done...
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    Maurice Wilkes (category British computer scientists)
    English computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored-program computers...
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  • to leave and start EMCC, the first computer company. BINAC was their first product, the first stored-program computer in the United States; BINAC is also...
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    Application software is any computer program that is intended for end-user use – not operating, administering or programming the computer. An application (app...
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